Cheating in Competitive Melee

I do not condone cheating, nor do I condone harassment toward any individual, named or otherwise, featured in this video. Please behave yourselves.

Also note that the changes to Pichu shown off in the video are approximations based on the following posts, which are both first-hand testimonies of the hacked version of the game:

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Songs (in order of appearance):

[renamamiya]

That Pichu player really gave him a smash 4 Cloud Up air

[GCLU]

Ken's response to that Pichu incident is still rather hilarious.

"The best part is that he could've just played Pikachu"

His tag was xChaos/Chaos

[Verte]

I really like how you classify assaulting your opponent as a technique

[brianthomas]

Nice, sleek editing. No eyesore, no forced gags and memes, just straight to the point with some light humor.

[AnRKader]

I love the spooky lead up and reveal to... “master hnad”

[BeatRiceIsHere]

These 3D model edits are so good I’m starting to become suspicious that they’re the reason it takes a while for a video to come out

[yeetusskeetus]

The pichu player probably just ported pre-patch ultimate pichu into melee.

[Saiyanryu]

6:04 - 6:21 What the Ohio Melee community found out was that Pichu’s goggles are heavy as hell.

[ShibuNub]

A little known fact about the Pichu player is that he later went on to sneak into Nintendo headquarters and discretely alter the code of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as revenge, resulting in Pre-Patch Pichu

[underkanal]

"Fox prayed from bottom of his heart"

That got me laughing

[Grgrqr]

“Cheating”
“Intelligent bypass of the rule set”

[MasonEricPatterson]

The way this guy buffed Pichu and thought no one would notice has me DYING

[The_Meev]

Makes me wonder how that Pichu player thought he wouldn't get caught when he made such massive and noticeable changes to the character

[comfyasf]

6:54
Those hands mean nothing to the average person, but people in the melee community can feel their aura

[popsodarootbeers]

In case anyone was wondering, ledge grabs are counted and displayed in the results screen after the match ends, so no, you don't have to review the footage and count to be sure. The Melee devs really thought of everything*!

[jamonesbaratoskim]

when he makes a new video i think: "that´s it there´s nothing else left on melee" but he keps surprising me and i like it

[phanta]

Ahh, yes the only character in this game that’s banned. “Master Hnad.”

[GimR]

Great video as always! Regarding tournaments, hacking will never work in a substantial way. Once pools start there are people on all setups and Pool Captains watching over. Most pools also have 4 setups. So if they did sneak their game on it they would be suspect if they didn't listen to the pool captain to play on an open setup and continually asked to play on one. They'd likely be denied as the pool needs to be finished in a timely manner too. Also, Stream setups would never have this happen to them. So if someone did sneak it in, they'd get a buff for a round or 2 and it's just not worth being banned from the entire community for a few cheap wins. This is why the one Pichu player at a local is the only recorded version of this type of cheating (that I know of at least.)

[thestanman]

Guys, he's been active on Twitter for awhile. He just took a small break but recently got back into making videos. And a video is planned to go up very soon.

[gab_gabriel]

Imagine playing a set on a hacked version of Melee and Mew2King goes up to you, puts his hand on your shoulder and goes "That's one interesting Pichu you got there..."